Original German WWII Luftwaffe Paratrooper Trench Art M31 Canteen from Russian Front - dated Christmas 1943 French Militaria which also allowed relatively rapid

which also allowed relatively rapid installation of a silencer for covert operations

and the receiver is marked P

Twenty plane loads jumped early and were spread from Frejus to the west

On December 6th the RCT moved from La Colle to entrain at Antibes for movement to Soissons and assignment to XVIII Airborne Corps

Frame 36” H x 30

Original German WWII Luftwaffe Paratrooper Trench Art M31 Canteen from Russian Front - dated Christmas 1943 French Militaria which also allowed relatively rapidOriginal Item: One of a kind. This is a genuine WWII issue German Aluminum Model 1931 Canteen, which has been turned into a wonderful named example of Russian Front Trench art! It is marked DMN43 on the neck and cap, indicating 1943 manufacture by Deutsche Metallwerke in Neustadt an der Weinstrae. This canteen was carefully designed, and is all hand engraved, with a lovely Fallschirmjger (Paratrooper) emblem in the middle, which is very well executed.